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Year of the Wood Dragon甲辰( at the beginning of the year, water - hare癸卯)
Syria: 2035/36 ( the year in October )
- 2.1 First half of
- 2.2 Second half of
- 2.3 Exact date of birth unknown
Events
Politics and World Affairs
- Peter I. appoints his wife Catherine to co-ruler.
- The Codex Augusteus, an influential collection of the laws of Electoral Saxony, published in Leipzig.
- Joseph Wilhelm Ernst of Fürstenberg - Stühlingen moved his residence from Stühlingen to Donaueschingen.
Economy
- SEPTEMBER 24: The Paris Stock Exchange is founded.
- NOVEMBER 1: by the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm I the Great Military Orphanage is donated as educational and training center for child soldiers and military orphans as a result of the losses of the Spanish War of Succession.
Science and Technology
- JANUARY 28: The Russian Academy of Sciences as well as today's St. Petersburg State University, the first university in Russia, to be launched by decree of Peter I, based in Saint Petersburg.
- MAY 9: Construction of the Max Clemens channel in Münster with breaking ceremony by the Elector of Cologne Clemens August.